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Warzone 2's wiping DMZ progress and players don't quite know how to feel about it

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Call of Duty is trying out something new with DMZ, and the reaction is all over the place. It's a server wipe of faction tiers (i.e. completed missions) and players' inventories, which is fa
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Call of Duty is trying out something new with DMZ, and the reaction is all over the place. It’s a server wipe of faction tiers (i.e. completed missions) and players’ inventories, which is fairly common in this style of RPG-lite shooter but new to Call of Duty.
The official announcement (opens in new tab) kind of buries this under the news that new missions will be arriving in season two and optimistically calls the wipe “a refresh of your current Faction mission progress and an inventory (Contraband and Keys) reset.” This comes alongside a major rebalancing of the mode’s AI and an acknowledgement that the difficulty curve of the faction missions “was too aggressive for many players” and is being smoothed-out.
But it’s the progress wipe that’s caught the attention. There is nothing to start off your week like a CODbro sending an angry tweet about such changes saying “casual players are going to fucking lose it!”
ok so there’s literally no point in playing the game because BR stats don’t count and DMZ is literally getting wiped this is a disaster waiting to happen, casual players are going to fucking lose it when they see 0 stats AND a DMZ reset.

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